Ketan Thakkar
Senior Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKetan Thakkar is a senior engineering leader based in Redmond, WA, with a decade of experience delivering data-heavy, ML-driven software at scale. As Senior Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, he guides teams exploring LLMs and generative AI for recruiting products, balancing fast experimentation with careful product-market fit. He actively enables experimentation with embedding-based semantic search and ranking, bridging information retrieval, ML/NLP, and production-grade systems. His career spans leadership roles at LinkedIn, with earlier positions at Microsoft and Axceler, demonstrating deep expertise in data pipelines (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark), Lucene, TensorFlow, and RankLib. He holds a BE from Nagpur University and an MS from Bentley University, combining strong engineering training with a track record of delivering scalable AI-powered search and ML features.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur UniversityMaster of Science, Master of Science at Bentley UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
LinkedInAttic/hopscotch
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
A framework to make it easy for developers to add product tours to their pages.
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